Laundry-checking device



srr' JOHN H. romp, or c'rmvnmnnlonro LAUNDRY-CHECKING zonvrcn.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN H. Tom, a citizen of the United States,resident of Cleveland, county of Cuyahoga, and State of Ohio, haveinvented new and useful improvements 'in Laundry-Checking Devices, ofwhich the following is a specification, the principle of the inventionbeing herein explained and the best mode in which I have contemplatedapplying that principle, so as to distinguish it from other inventions.

My invention relates to checking devices and particularly to devices ofthis character utilized by laundries. The object of the invention is todesign a checking device which will economically and conveniently servethe purpose of making it almost impossible to confuse pieces of laundrybelonging to different people.

The annexed drawing and the following description set forth in detailcertain means embodying my invention, the disclosed means, however,constituting but one of the various mechanical forms in which the prin-Tciple of my invention may be applied.

In said annexed drawing:

Figure 1 represents a'perspective view of acabinet formed with aplurality of separated chambers in which laundry of dilferent classes orbelongin to diiferent persons may be segregated, sai chambers beingseverally provided with different keys adapted to cooperate withcorresponding check members, the latter being adapted to be secured tothe articles belonging in or segregated in the corresponding chambers;

' Fig. 2 represents a front elevation of the said key;

Figs. 3 and 4 represent, respectively, side and plan views of the same,the former showing a fragmentary portion of the compartment to which thekey is attached;

Fig. 5 represents a perspective view of means for segregating theseveral classes of laundry by means other than providing separatereceptacles therefor Figs. 6, 7 and 8 represent, respectively,

/ plan, side and end. views of the key illustrated in Fig. 5; and vFigs. 9- and 10 represent face and side views, respectively, of thecheck member em loyed.

cferring to the annexed drawings, there are represented by the ordinalsl'to '6, respectively, keys of varied shaped cross-sec- Specification ofLetters Patent.

Patented June is, man.

v Application filed April 24, 1919; 'Serial No. 292,326."

tions associated with and attached to the several compartments 15 of acabinet 14. These several compartments are adapted to receive, in asegregated manner, the several pieces of laundry belonging to variousclasses or various persons. The several keys mentioned comprise a bodymember 11 formed with longitudinal splines 12 projecting from the facesthereof, the relative disposition of the splines 12 upon the faces 11,in the form of apparatus herewith shown, being varied, so that only thatcheck member 7 formed witha groove 8 and intersecting apertures 9corresponding with the key, will fit over any one key. In the form ofapparatus herein shown, the check member and corresponding key areindicated by the ordinal 5. The check members 7 are adapted to besecured to the several pieces of laundry by means of pins 10 or anyother suitable means.

Heretofore, pins such as those shown in the accompanying drawing by theordinal 10, and provided with different numbers, corresponding todifferently numbered compartments of a cabinet such as 14:, have beenattached to the several pieces of laundry,

the same numbered pin being attached to the several pieces of any onecompartment.

After the garments have been washed and it is desired to segregate intothe proper compartment all the pieces bearing the proper number, oftenthe numbers are read wrongly for some reason, such as turning the 6 or 9upside down, or by putting the wrong piece in the wrong compartment forother reasons, In the checking system to and all the pieces of oneperson or one class hung upon the corresponding key 11. The laundry isthen washed with the pins 10 andcheck members 7 attached thereto and,when it is desired to segregate the pieces of different classes ordiiferent persons, before each piece is put into a compartment 15, Fig.1, or hung upon a key'll,

Fig. 5, the check member 7 attached to the piece is fitted over theroper key '11 and left thereon, Fig. 1, the garment being thrown intothat com artment, or the check members fitted over t e proper key, Fig.5, and the garment left hanging thereon. The length of the splines 12 isimmaterial so that the same serve-to allow the placing upon the bodymember 11 of only one class of checkmembers 7. Inasmuch as the severalkeys are all different, and inasmuch as only one class of check memberswill fit any one key, and inasmuch as all of the garments of one personor of one class are each provided with a check member having an aperturesimilar in. outline to the outline of the cross-section of that one keyonly it is impossible to make any errors when segregating the laundry.

My invention is designed not only for use in checking various classes oflaundry which should be segregated, but also for checking many articleswhich temporarily are c0- mingled and later should be segregated into aplurality of definitely defined classes.

What I claim is: 1; In a checking devi "e, the combination with apluralit of check members, of a pin rality of fixed eys, each having aplurality of longitudinal splines, the splines of each key beingpositioned to form a difierent transverse outline, and'each check-memberbeing differently apertured and adapted to be fitted to its respectivekey. 7

2. In achecking device, the combination with a check-member carryingmeans by -which it is secured to the article to be.

checked, of a fixedly secured key having a longitudinal splineprojecting from one face each member belng differently apertured so asto be fitted to its respective fixed key.

Signed by me, this 28" day of March,

' JOHN H. TODD.

